“I knew enough to do more than I did,” the director told the New York Times on Wednesday. “There was more to it than just the normal rumors, the normal gossip. It wasn’t secondhand. I knew he did a couple of these things.”

The “Hateful Eight” filmmaker, 54, admitted that both ex-girlfriend Mira Sorvino and another unnamed actress told him disturbing stories about encounters with the disgraced movie mogul. He was also aware that Rose McGowan, who last week tweeted that Weinstein had raped her, had allegedly reached a legal settlement with the exec.

Despite this knowledge, Tarantino told the paper he did not realize these alleged incidents were part of a larger pattern of abuse.

“What I did was marginalize the incidents,” he said. “Anything I say now will sound like a crappy excuse.”

Specifically in regards to Weinstein’s alleged harassment of Sorvino, Tarantino said he felt that the producer, 65, was “infatuated” with the actress in a “Svengali kind of way.”

Harvey Weinstein and Quentin Tarantino in 2016Getty Images for The Weinstein Company

“I was shocked and appalled,” he told the paper. “I couldn’t believe he would do that so openly. I was like: ‘Really? Really?’ But the thing I thought then, at the time, was that he was particularly hung up on Mira.”

Tarantino said that when he and Sorvino started dating, he assumed the issue had been resolved.

“I’m with her, he knows that, he won’t mess with her, he knows that she’s my girlfriend,” he said.

The director expressed certainty that other people close to Weinstein were well aware of his behavior, despite protestations otherwise in the wake of the accusations.

“Everyone who was close to Harvey had heard of at least one of those incidents,” he said. “It was impossible they didn’t.”

Tarantino did not defend his failure to act and also told the paper he should have stopped working with the producer, with whom many in Hollywood viewed him as having a father-son closeness.

“I wish I had taken responsibility for what I heard,” he said. “If I had done the work I should have done then, I would have had to not work with him.”

Instead, Tarantino continued to work with Weinstein, who has produced all of his major films, including “Pulp Fiction,” “Inglourious Basterds” and “Django Unchained.”

“I don’t know,” he said, when asked if he thought fans would now view those films differently. “I hope it doesn’t.”

Despite their closeness, Tarantino said, “I don’t have an answer for why he could do this and be stripped of his entire legacy.”

The relationship between Tarantino and Weinstein wasn’t just restricted to work, either. Just last month, Page Six exclusively reported that Weinstein had thrown Tarantino and fiancée Daniella Pick a star-studded engagement party in New York.